Week 11 Reading B: Sioux Legends

The story of the War-Like Seven was interesting to me because it introduced these seven character, but they didn't really do anything. Five of them drop dead on their way to the fight, and all that the fish and the turtle really accomplished was surviving the other tribes incompetent attempts to kill them. Iktomi was there, and ended up accidentally killing everyone for the turtle and fish so they were celebrated as accomplished warriors, but it really isn't a story about Iktomi like the others were.

                                
                                                       (Illustration by Angel de Cora)